TY  - JOUR
  - Zhao, J,McCarthy, ME,Ellis, AD
  - 2008
  - August
  - Optics Express
  - Electronic dispersion compensation using full optical-field reconstruction in 10Gbit/s OOK based systems
  - Validated
  - ()
  - 16
  - 15353
  - 15365
  - We investigate the design of electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) using full optical-field reconstruction in 10Gbit/s on-off keyed transmission systems limited by optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). By effectively suppressing the impairment due to low- frequency component amplification in phase reconstruction, properly designing the transmission system configuration to combat fiber nonlinearity, and successfully reducing the vulnerability to thermal noise, a 4.8dB OSNR margin can be achieved for 2160km single-mode fiber transmission without any optical dispersion compensation. We also investigate the performance sensitivity of the scheme to various system parameters, and propose a novel method to greatly enhance the tolerance to differential phase misalignment of the asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer. This numerical study provides important design guidelines which will enable full optical-field EDC to become a cost-effective dispersion compensation solution for future transparent optical networks. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
DA  - 2008/08
ER  - 

@article{V43334908,
   = {Zhao,  J and McCarthy,  ME and Ellis,  AD },
   = {2008},
   = {August},
   = {Optics Express},
   = {Electronic dispersion compensation using full optical-field reconstruction in 10Gbit/s OOK based systems},
   = {Validated},
   = {()},
   = {16},
  pages = {15353--15365},
   = {{We investigate the design of electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) using full optical-field reconstruction in 10Gbit/s on-off keyed transmission systems limited by optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). By effectively suppressing the impairment due to low- frequency component amplification in phase reconstruction, properly designing the transmission system configuration to combat fiber nonlinearity, and successfully reducing the vulnerability to thermal noise, a 4.8dB OSNR margin can be achieved for 2160km single-mode fiber transmission without any optical dispersion compensation. We also investigate the performance sensitivity of the scheme to various system parameters, and propose a novel method to greatly enhance the tolerance to differential phase misalignment of the asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer. This numerical study provides important design guidelines which will enable full optical-field EDC to become a cost-effective dispersion compensation solution for future transparent optical networks. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America}},
  source = {IRIS}
}